3 dead, 9 wounded in California mass shooting
Three people were killed and nine others injured in a mass shooting at a residence in Long Beach, California, as the US continues to struggle with a gun violence epidemic.
The massacre took place Tuesday night, according to the Long Beach Fire Department.
At 10:44 pm, @lbfirefighters responded to shooting at a residence on the 2700 block of 7th Street. An MCI was declared with a total of 12 patients. 3 confirmed fatalities (adult males) 9 patients transported to local area hospitals. 5 immediate & 4 delayed. PIO onscene. pic.twitter.com/k8txxNqZfL
— Long Beach Fire (CA) (@LBFD) October 30, 2019
Three men were dead at the scene and nine patients were transported to local hospitals, the fire department said.
Firefighters and paramedics arrived to “a scene obviously full of chaos,” fire public information officer Jake Heflin said.
Here’s Jake Heflin, public information officer with the @LBFD giving reporters an update on the fatal shooting at a Halloween party in #LongBeach pic.twitter.com/KIu0IEWH3e
— Ruben Vives (@LATvives) October 30, 2019
No suspect information was immediately available shortly after it occurred. Aerial video showed a large police presence at the scene.
Last year, Amnesty International warned that the gun violence situation in the US has grown into a full blown "human rights crisis" and the administration of President Donald Trump was doing little to solve it.
In a scathing report the UK-based group warned that “all aspects of American life have been compromised in some way by the unfettered access to guns, with no attempts at meaningful national regulation.”
According to the organization, an average of 106 individuals died a day from firearm-related incidents in 2016, totaling 38,658. Of that figure, nearly 23,000 were suicides and more than 14,400 were homicides, Amnesty said.
The issue of gun violence has become all the more polarizing under US President Donald Trump, a Republican whose presidential campaign was funded partially by the National Rifle Association (NRA), an influential gun lobby in the US.
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